Direct religious experience (directly revealed to the individal)Indirect (seeing the world through a haze of God, beauty in nature) or prayer

Had an intelectual vision (experience) - 'conscious of christ at her side'she could not discern the form

Had a number of Corporeal Visions, she saw Mary as a physical form like a personKnowledge is comunicated - she discovered the mountain spring

Had an imaginative vision - occurs in dreams - Not to be afraid of marrying MaryEven though she was pregnant and he was not the father - NOETIC and REVELATORY

Whats the difference between saying that God spoke to me in a dream, and i dreamt that God spoke to me

Disembodied voice - Revelation from god - Authoritative

The question of Voices being reliable - Fir with religious (christian church) teachingsLeaves the person feeling at peace with the world

PINT - Pluralist (experiencing the same alternate reality) Pragmatist (Truth is whatever has value for US)Similar to other psychological phenomena in the sense they are natural to human beings

If Mystical experiences can be explained psychologically - and thus have no authoritityIf not then they are psychological phenomena due to God - this is a good thing

Principle of Credulity - (things appear as they are) unless good grounds for disbelief we should believe them However potential factors still dont disprove, things are not always as they seem (flat world)

Principle of Testimony - in the absence of special conditions it is reasonable to accept the experiences of othersHowever difference between believing that they believe it, and believing it

Refutes the argument that as only religious people seem to have them they are casued by something else Those who have not experienced a telephone will not believe that they have experienced a telephone

Supports the cumalative argument stating that taken with other things, RE provides strong evidence for God

Compares the cumalative argument to 10 leacky buckets

We shouldnt disbelieve experiences if many people have them and they are what they seem to beNormal events are not doubted and as religious expereinces are experienced through the mind they should not be doubted

Religious experiences are verifiable because other peoples experiences act as sense observationAs they are also sense expereince its a doble standard to claim they are just psychology

Claims that the exerience is Authoritive for the religion as a wholeAnd thus leads to conflicting claims - Hindus see Shiva

Experiences all tend to be about love and stuff, this doens not mean they cancell each other outExperience are ineffable, they experience the same reality and then translate it into their own culture

Sexist - says more about Freud - Not all cultures have a God and in many its a women undemines universal nature and vallidity of his primeval horde and Oedipus theory